, 1887-12-04
"weIl, I never set up for anything of

wen, never set up Tor anything OF
a high order like you, Bacon"
Mr.. Inderwick was a little sarcastic
and Mr.. Bacon was evidently displeased.
Il may not amount to much, he said,
'but ! am not under a woman's thumb"
do you refer to myself and Mrs. In
derwick2"
"Humph!''
"For if you do
"Look here, Inderwick, old fellow;
straighten up and look at me! I don't
worry my mind, my boy. l don't care
that for Mrs. Bacon" Hero Mr.. Bacon
snapped his finger gleefully. "She can't
rule mel''
"Roomsl" said Mr.. Inderwick to the
clerk; ''names, Inderwick and Bacon.
You can register them"
Ready" said the superior being,
looking with hauteur at the common
mortal who had presumed to address
him in so unconcerned q manner, ''twen-
ty-seven and twenty-eight."
"One will answer" said Mr.. Bacon,
with deep respect.
But the superior being did not melt.
He indicated Mr.. Bacon with his finger
as an object of interest to a porter, and
turned his back upon him.
AS they were going up the staircase,
another porter followed with the sealskin
sacque, which had just arrived. Mr..
Bacon gazed at it contenptuously.
Are you really going to send that
thing?" he said.
Eyes"
"Weakeningl'' repeated Mr.. Bacon
with much the air of the superior being.
"Hello! what are you doing. Inderwick?"
Mr.. 1nderwick had cut the wrapping
around the sack and drawn it out
II have a fancy to look at the thing to
see if it is fine enough; it was only $780,"
he said;
"Onlyl Inderwick, you are mashed
on Mrs. Inderwick!"
II suppose you are not on Mrs. Bacon?"
"I-mashed on Mrs. Bacon? It's quite
the other way, Inderwickl Mrs. Bacon
is mashed on me. Nothing would ever
make her do what 1 am doing. No, sir!
l am the master in my own house, and
Mrs. Bacon knows her placel''
"Weil, that's a lucky thing. What do
you think of this AFFAIR." He held up the
beautiful sacque for a moment under the
electric light.
"Ha! ha! And you are going to ex
press it,"
Tonight"
"Inderwick, you are henpeckedl Look
at me; do you see anything about me
that looks henpecked?"
''T~wenty-seven and twenty-eight, gen
tlemen," said the porter, opening the
door of twenty-seven.
'Henpeckedl' said Inderwick, as he
threw the sacque over his arm and en-
tered. "Well, Bacon, l believe you are
henpecked, and, confidentially, L should
be glad to be myself"
A scream curdled tho blood Of Bacon
and lnderwick, and almost the porter.
Two ladies started up from the sofa where
they had been seated.
''Anniel''
''Charlesi''
''Mrs. Baconl''
AS two of the party rushed into each
others arms-not Mr.. and Mrs. Bacon
a crocheted scarf and u s~ealsliin sacoue
were thrown around the shoulders of the
people embracing.
Then followed an awful silence, when
Mrs. Bacon tool, the word.
Bacon" said Mrs. Bacon.
"Yes, my dear" said Mr.. Bacon.
Mrs. Bacon slowly raised her finger
and pointed at him. Bacon shrank back.
60 and buy tickets for this whole
party to return in the morning train"
Eyes, my dear"
''Then come back to the room next to
this. 1 have something to say to you"
Mr.. Bacon shivered and retired, and
Mrs. Bacon sailed haughtily, without a
word, into the adjoining apartment.
"Ill never do % any more, dear!'
"Aud l promise you 1 won't!"
This was the dialogue overheard as
Mrs. Bacon slammed the door.
Half an hour afterward Mr.. Inderwick
was conversing with Mr.. Bacon.
"a rather queer affair, my dear fell
low" said Mr.. Inderwick, who had lit q
mild cigar and was in excellent humor.
''Queer?" said Mr.. Bacon with a tragic
air; otis awful"
BE a man and stiffen up, Bacon!
You're not the person 1 took you for.
You are weakening, my dear Bacon.
Have a drink"
Mr.. Bacon groaned.
1.-THE odor of spirits is disagreeable to
Mrs. Bacon"
well, a cigar them
MRS. Bacon never could bear the
smell of tobacco"
''Oh, hang it! Well, lend mo fifty or
SO. That sacque took all my funds"
~ would with pleasure, my dear In
berwick, but-but Mrs. Bacon'-
mot Mrs. Bacon aGainl'
"She has just - borrowed - my last
dollarl''
Mr.. Inderwick laughed heartily.
"My dear Bacon" he said, ''do you
know my opinion of you? 1 regard you
as the victim of-Mrs. Bacon"
And a week afterward, when Mr.. and
Mrs. Inderwick were conversing:
Sweetest" said Mr.. Inderwick, sit
ting very close to the lady, ''if you'll
cut the acquaintance of Mrs. Bacon I'll
drop Bacon - Esten Cooke in The
Cosmopolitan.
Physicians Who Advertise.
A physician of Philadelphia is unable
to understand the real reason for the IN
written law which prohibits a doctor
to advertise. 1t holds in no other pro-